At the centre of this painting, a group of cyclists make their way under an arched bridge, of the kind regularly seen in Central Park, NYC; either side of the bike path, the ground is orange, the colour of typical Surinamese soil; the bicycles themselves remind the viewer of dutch streets full of cyclists. Veldkamp allows for a multiplicity of place within his compositions by blending disparate visual motifs; the end result is that he creates psychological, dreamlike landscapes composed of both his memories and immediate surroundings. 

A self-portrait of the artist occupies the foreground at the bottom-left of the painting. The figure is so far into the foreground that he seems to be removed from the scene itself, like he’s spectating or overlooking from afar.

Miko Veldkamp

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Miko Veldkamp

London

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